Ellie Alldredge-Bell educated Oak Park students for 33 years, spanning her longtime career at Holmes, Hatch and Lincoln schools. Now she's turned her longtime passion for teaching and knack for writing into a new profession as an author.

The 6th grade arts students at Brooks and Julian Middle School have created beautiful, colorful, bird-themed art work for the 8th annual student art auction to benefit the Oak Park Education Foundation (OPEF). This year the show will take place at Magic Tree Bookstore, 141 N. Oak Park Avenue.

The Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park is delighted to host a visit from Michael Grant, author of the popular Gone series on Tuesday April 3rd at 4p.m. He will be talking about Bzrk, his creepy new book for teens.

What do Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Native American, Norse and Celtic mythologies have in common? Quite a bit, according to Michael Scott, who told his audience that many stores are similar or even identical in these varied cultures.